Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"The era of blind, naive dependence on US-controlled infrastructure is rapidly coming to an end. Nations can no longer afford to have their military capabilities and vital digital sovereignty tied to the satellite grid of a superpower they cannot trust."

Iran’s plan to abandon GPS is about much more than technology | Israel-Iran conflict | Al Jazeera

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/7/27/irans-plan-to-abandon-gps-is-about-much-more-than-technology

#DataSovreignty

Ten lessons from Katharine Graham's time at the Washington Post.

https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast/outliers-katharine-graham/

'When Nixon came after the Post with the full force of the executive branch (challenging TV licenses, crashing their stock, and threatening prison), Katharine never wavered. She’d told her reporters to keep digging, and she meant it. When prosecutors demanded their notes, she took them home herself. If anyone went to jail, it would be her. Not them. For nine months, while other papers stayed silent and friends begged her to stop, she kept her word. The President of the United States couldn’t make her break it. Most leaders fold under pressure. She knew something they didn’t: your word is all you have. Once broken, it’s worthless forever.'

It looks like we are under attack, that prevented SSH connections to fail. We have deployed mitigations and the situation calmed down. Please let us know if the issue occurs again.

"Driverless" taxis that require two drivers 🤦‍♂️

"The Tesla robotaxis rely on remote supervision by employees in a customer service center, and a human safety supervisor in the front passenger seat, ready to intervene if needed."
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/26/tesla-investors-grow-wary-of-elon-musk-robotaxi-promises.html

#TheModernWorld by #TomTomorrow

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1. Trump in a suit, raising his fists, surrounded by flames.
Text: America 2025 - Everything is going great!

2. Sen Joni Ernst & RFK Jr.
Text: 1. Wise & capable officials at every level of government!
RFKJr: We're canceling funding for a bird flu vaccine! Healthy people won't get sick! Somebody get me a glass of RAW MILK, goddammit!
Ernst: What's the big deal? We are ALL going to die!

3. Trump, with werewolf JD Vance & vampire Stephen Miller.
Text: 2. A celebration of our glorious leader on the auspicious anniversary of his blessed birth!
Trump: Big strong tanks go vroooom!
Vance: They certainly do, sir!
Miller: The sunlight -- it burns!

4. The Statue of Liberty flanked by two masked men (ICE agents).
Text: 3. Secret masked police protecting us from the enemies of the state!
Man 1: We caught THIS scheming immigrant encouraging huddled masses and wretched refuse to come to OUR country.
Man 2: We don't put up with that crap in Donald TRUMP's America!

5. 2 panels.
Text: Things Couldn't be more normal!
Panel 1 shows Elon with a black eye on his phone. The other shows Trump on his phone.
Elon: Trump is in the Epstein files! He is a big pedophile and I got him elected! For some reason I believe posting this will make me look better.
Trump: Elon "Bladder Man" Musk is a VERY nasty Person! H has such nice Factories, it would be a shame if someone "nuked" them!

6. The White House.
Text: 5. The future's so bright, we gotta send in the National Guard!
Trump (from inside the WH): I'll show this stupid country who's in charge if I have to arrest every single person in it! Somebody call that Bukele guy and see if he built any prisons yet.
Lackey (from inside the WH): Right away sir!

The cost of Reform UK’s anti-environmental policies - https://neweconomics.org/2025/05/the-cost-of-reform-uks-anti-environmental-policies "will cause significant damage to the UK economy and destroy tens of thousands of good paying jobs." #reform not just bad people, but economically illiterate ones... #climatecrisis

I know this is an out-there, controversial thing to say, but I’ve really got to come out against genocide and imposed starvation.

Anyone have tips for off gassing a microwave ? Mine broke with no warning and it’s currently my only cooking method.

Im hangry, dizzy and annoyed since it wasn’t even that old.

If I can find a way to replace it, my concern is the smell and how it’ll impact my mast cells.

Usually I would leave a new appliance to sit for a week or two but this is incredibly urgent.
#mcas #mastcells #offgassing

Propaganda and media thread 🧵

"While right-wing propaganda has its roots in the 1930s, it wasn’t until the ’70s that Republican thought leaders truly began seeding the notion that any media criticism of Republican policy exhibited a “left-wing bias” and should be discarded as unreliable. In reality, as media critic Parker Molloy notes, most mainstream U.S. journalism skews center-right."

https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/01/02/americas-right-wing-propaganda-problem-might-be-terminal/

After two weeks of writing, revising, and trying to make everything as digestible as possible, I finally published "GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days", where I explain in detail the steps we took to turn GNOME Calendar from an app that was literally unusable with a keyboard and screen reader to an app that is (finally) accessible to keyboard and screen reader users as of GNOME 49!

https://tesk.page/2025/07/25/gnome-calendar-a-new-era-of-accessibility-achieved-in-90-days/

#GNOMECalendar #GNOME #Accessibility #a11y #DisabilityPrideMonth #Linux #FOSS #OSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #GTK #libadwaita

FCC to Appoint a Babysitter to Make Sure CBS Isn’t Anti-Trump - https://gizmodo.com/fcc-to-appoint-a-babysitter-to-make-sure-cbs-isnt-anti-trump-2000634566 " FCC commissioner Brendan Carr says CBS will have a "bias monitor." " not true: it will have a bias in favour of #trump

We're lucky the nuclear button doesn't have a picture of an underage girl on it. patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

Let me program your new network, Nepo-Ellison who looks like Tony Robbins wearing a finance-bro skinsuit.
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/7/25/2335143/-Cartoon-Coming-soon-to-CBS

The Tea app is vibe-coded and has over 4 million users. Users' private data was breached, and all government-issued verification IDs, photos, and private messages were leaked. This is why you need a good team of experienced developers, IT and infosec folks to secure your infrastructures. You can’t just vibe code using AI and get away with poor jobs. Now they are going to use the same shity AI in government and everywhere and we will see more such things. What a mess

Refreshed Firefox, today, on my laptop and all of the stuff that I disabled (Home content, search engines that I deleted, AI bullshit) all returned.

Mozilla, you are failing so bad right now. Just stop! What happened to you? At one point, in the not-so-distant-past, you were going to be the savior of the internet. What a major disappointment you have become.

I am trying so hard not to just give up on you, but you are making it really difficult.

Most sickening email of the day starts, "I'm Dr. Mehmet Oz, head of the Medicare program, and I'm excited to introduce my new email series to help you stay healthy. "

The U.S. is in deep, deep trouble.

The best book I've read -- by far -- about technology and the "AI" bubble is Karen Hao's "Empire of AI".

It's deeply researched, tough, fair, and written with non-techie readers in mind -- and exposes the colonial-style corruption of the predatory tech giants. Read it.

https://karendhao.com/

The CSA is calling for universal respirator use in healthcare settings to reduce the spread of airborne disease!

This is huge, and if accepted would make healthcare much safer for all.

They’ve allowing for public comment between now and August 9th at the link below.

Please leave a comment and let’s make sure our voices are heard.

This will no doubt face opposition from the anti-mask crowd and we desperately need masks back in healthcare.

https://publicreview.csa.ca/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2fHome%2fView%2f2256677

#maskup #maskswork #COVIDisAirborne #covidisnotover #disability #ableism #n95

Indian Time, a newspaper that served the Mohawk Nation, informed readers for over 40 years. Then, it vanished.

To understand the demise of one of America’s oldest Indigenous newspapers, we spoke with Marjorie Skidders, Isaac White, and Stephanie Sugars.

https://freedom.press/issues/radio-silence-on-the-reservation/